Navy SEAL(Sea, Air and Land) commandos who swooped May 1 at the Abbottabad hideout of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan not only found a “treasure trove of documents “ about his own organization, Al Qaeda, but also some interesting facts about his personal life on the run.
Among them were some medications on many kinds of common ailments, such as stomach ache, fever or ulcer. But what caught the attention of officials who evaluated the medicines found a bottle of “avena syrup “, said to be a form of “herbal viagra or sex enhancer.
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Could it be that Bin Laden has been using this on his young wife, Amal, a 29 year old Yemeni whom he married when she was 17 years of age?
And maybe, Bin Laden had been using this syrup to produce more
children preferably male to follow in his footsteps as “Bin Laden Juniors “. The late Al Qaeda leader, it is known has four other wives who bore him several children.
Amal was the lady who was shot in the leg during the daring midnight raid that ended the life of the world’s most wanted criminal and terrorist responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent men and women including the September 11, 2001 Twin Towers hijacked planes attacks in New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania .
Based on reports, the syrup is actually an oat or cereal extract called “Avena sativa “commonly used as a sex enhancer, an “aphrodisiac herb “that is included in many of sexual enhancing products.
According to Bin Laden’s wife Amal, her late husband was fond of herbal medicine and a “believer in his own medication “.
She said Bin Laden developed kidney problems some years back when he was poisoned by Saudis who tried to assassinate him with deadly toxin.
A certain Dr. Rey Sahelian, said that “some anecdotal evidence from users indicates the herb (avena sativa) to be a mild and gentle sexual enhancer, but not as potent as tribulus terrestris, tongkat ali or horny goat seed “.
Commercially, sex enhancer products that contain avena sativa or in combination of other potent herbs are available in the market with a price range of from $16 to the $80 per bottle of capsules.
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Did you know that the Navy SEALs who conducted the high risk
assault on Bin Laden’s mansion hideout were known as the “Elite of the Elite “and called as SEAL team six, but with an official name of Naval Special Warfare Development Group or DEVGRU.
DEVGRU, on the other hand belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, an extraordinary collection of task forces and special mission units reporting only to the President of the United States.
The JSOC has an annual budget of US$ 1 Billion!
The Navy SEALs are said to be highly secretive about their mission that even their wives are kept in the dark of their missions.
In the Philippines the Navy SEAL has a counterpart called the Navy SWAG or Navy Special Warfare Group.
This elite group was part of the original plotters that was to attack Malacanang Palace underneath the Pasig river days before the
1986 February revolution but the plan was called off by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) under then Col. Gregorio “Gringo“ Honasan and Rex Robles, then a Navy officer.
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Did Pakistan really have no knowledge of the presence of Bin Laden in their territory? Or how true are reports that the late Al Qaeda leader was being used as a leverage to obtain more aid in US dollars. Pakistan receives some $3 Billion in aid annually from the United States which include their participation and cooperation in the war against terrorists.
The Philippines meanwhile, a special “friend and long time ally “: of the United States receives only a pittance of an estimated $400
Million some of which are in the form of military equipment or armaments. For instance, we get a number of Vietnam vintage Huey military helicopters.
Some kind of friend!
